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EP.85 Shadowbanned: The War on Internet Creators with Brandon Ray!
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What’s really happening to creators online? 🤔
In this episode, I sit down with Brandon Ray to talk about the growing issue of internet censorship and algorithmic suppression affecting online creators. From shadowbanning and demonetization to shifting platform rules, we break down how these systems impact content, audiences, and the future of independent voices online.
We discuss:
• How platforms decide what content gets seen
• The reality of shadowbanning and demonetization
• Why some creators feel pressured to self-censor
• The role algorithms play in shaping online conversations
• What this means for the future of digital media
If you’re a creator, viewer, or anyone interested in the future of free expression on the internet, this conversation is for you.
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SPEAKER_04Guys, guys, guys, guys, hold up, hold up. You should know. This ain't for everybody. Welcome to Savagely Loud. What's happening, people, guys? Welcome back to the show for the people that understand the facts. Divided by feelings equals failure. I'm Cliff. I'm your host, and I got Big Dave Anderson, the big bad Viking, in with me again as my co-host, like normal. Um, I'm also joined by uh, I should say we're also joined. I always leave Dave out. I'm so I'm still so used to doing this solo. You know, I have a tendency to leave Dave out. And with somebody that ugly, I don't know how we could possibly come on, man.
SPEAKER_03This isn't facely a mother can look. I mean, let's be honest.
SPEAKER_04I mean, some shit that could gag a maggot. But we're joined by another friend of ours today. We'll get to him, but before that, you know the drill. If you want to help us out, get these words out, get these truths out, you can follow me at Savagely Loud on Instagram. That's where I'm most active. And on that page, you're gonna find two links. One of those links is to the Savagely Loud podcast page. If you could please follow me there too, it'd be greatly appreciated, as that will inevitably be my backup page, and it helps get the show out there, helps grow the show's page, and we all need that. The other pay uh the other link you're gonna find on that page is a simple link tree. Anywhere you want to hear my bullshit or see my rants, you can find it there. Easy peasy. Outside of that, Facebook X and Rumble at Savagely Loud, YouTube at Savagely Loud Podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe. And you can email me at savagely loud at gmail.com, and I strongly suggest you do if you want to guarantee that I see your communication. Last but not least, yeah, that's right, you got it. Don't forget to like, comment, and share the material. It really, really does help us out. And for the love of everything you love, rate and review the show on Apple iTunes and Spotify. It really, really, really, really, really does a lot for getting breaking our show into the algorithm. So please just take a second out of your day. I'm begging you, pretty pleased with cherry on top, the whipped cream sprinkles, all that good shit. Go ahead and rate and review the show. Give us a good rating. Uh, that all being said, big day Vanderson. How are we doing today, brother?
SPEAKER_03I'm doing good, brother. Doing good, man. It's uh just another beautiful day to be alive.
SPEAKER_04Weren't you just whining about being tired? Come on, be honest, Gore.
SPEAKER_03I'm tired. My my work is running me through the ground. This this is the time of year where we're super fucking busy.
SPEAKER_04So it's just freestyle cycles and yeah, it's it's brutal. Well, at least you're here. At least we're gonna have a good conversation with our guest. Brandon Ray is with us. If you recognize if you don't recognize him, he is Ray's Moto Life on Instagram as well as many other things. Let's uh let's do the housekeeping. We'll do it a little different order. Dave, let everybody know where they can find you.
SPEAKER_03All right, y'all can find me on social media. I'm heavily active over there on Instagram and Facebook at the Hammer Drops. If you want to get in touch with me, it's best to email me and you can email me at David at the Hammer Drops.com. Brandon Ray, Mr.
SPEAKER_04Mr. Thank you for being on the show here, brother.
SPEAKER_01Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_04How are you doing tonight? I got zero complaints for you. Why don't you before we get started, why don't you let everybody know where they can find you?
SPEAKER_01All right. So Facebook is compl is right now cut out, canceled. So on Instagram, it's Ray's Motolife on YouTube. You can find me here at Brandon underscore Ray80. Also on X, you can find me at Brandon Ray 80 or Ray, just look up Ray's Motolife. A lot of that is still connected to that channel. Uh, you can also find me on Rumble under Brandon Ray 80. And uh let's see, Kick, you can find me under Brandon Ray 80. So most of those platforms, I'm I'm active. The ones I just said, I'm active every day. I'm posting something every day. Uh, YouTube, I'm running live streams at least four days a week in the mornings, around 10, 10:30 in the morning. So that's where you can find me heavily if you want to find me during the day, is either Instagram or uh YouTube.
SPEAKER_04So awesome. That yeah, I fought I found you on Instagram because uh you had commented on something. I posted something, and and I and we met relatively early on in my way, like in January 25. I switched up my content, uh, went a totally different direction. I just got tired of the world and I was just like fucking attention, black people, attention, you know, attention, everybody. Um, and and you had commented on something, and we kind of we just hit like hit it off because you're like you're just a real, you're just totally normal, natural dude. And then when you have a conversation with you, you're not uh you I guess I could say you're the opposite of me, really. Like I'm all fucking and you're just like, yeah, dude, we'll just keep this cool, keep this cool sometimes, yeah. Sometimes, sometimes, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I get I get on my rant, you know. I I I get going, but yeah, we I think it was something I commented on, and then and then I I I did an incoming remix video over uh you know, Huck. Someone saying something about Huck or something like that, and I broke it down. I broke down a video and I posted it on Facebook or something and Instagram and and I think we connected through that as well. And uh yeah, I mean I I get going. I'm a talker, you know, I I talk a lot, especially on my show. I usually do four to eight hour streams just by myself as a commentary. Uh I used to do the hour live streams, you know, and do it and try to push so much stuff in the hour. And I just finally got to the point where it's just like, you know, people like to come in and go out, you know, they can come in for lunchtime and work and blah, blah, blah, and stuff like that. So, you know, it it's you can find me rarely, you know, pretty active. So uh no, I mean, you are you you you've took off, I believe, on Instagram quite quite quick with uh with your chats, you know, which is good, you know. That means people are listening, people are wanting to hear you, you know. So um, so that's good. But I I'm glad to be here tonight, you know. I'm glad to see you two, you know, knuckleheads, I would say. Uh people I would associate with, you know.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh you look like my kind of people. Uh I may do commentary, but you know, I'm true Harley, you know, grunge, you know, riding motorcycles. Uh, you know, I'm not the the the rub, the rich urban biker. You know what I mean? I don't have the Harley just sitting in the garage, you know what I mean? I've got them under a carport and I'm working on them. I actually I don't wear the weekend warrior clothes. I'm at you know, I wear clothes, you know, what you see is what you get every day. So yeah, I'm I'm an authentic guy. I don't put on a persona for people. I try not to ever put on this character because a lot of people get on social media and they have this character. Yep. And then when they put this character on, and then if you ever meet them, like I have, I've met people in real life, and it's like, that's not even you, man. That's not what you're pre you know, what you're portraying, what you're doing, you know, and it it's disappointing. And then I'm like, I have nothing to I like real original people, you know what I mean? I like someone that's true to themselves and that has principles and will stand on their morals and their values and don't back down for nothing, you know, not on the not on those, you know.
SPEAKER_04So well, and the hardest thing about social media now is like you said, everybody's playing a character, but the the difficult thing about that is, you know, back in the day, you if somebody was playing a character, they let you know. Like it was obvious that this is a character, this is a comedy routine, like it's very blatantly obvious. Now they're selling themselves as this, but they're not actually that. And then when you corner them, because I've had the same instances where I've met somebody that I I, you know, people that I've admired, that I I enjoyed their content or whatever, and I went to talk to them, and they were just absolutely nobody I'd ever want to talk to in my entire life. But when you corner them, then then that's when that's when the character, oh, it's you know, it's a character on social media, you know. Like, no, I think you're just a piece of shit. Okay, exactly. Character on social media was actually cool. You should be more like the character.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. I I've met those people too, man. I I've I've been like, dude, and I don't like follow anyone, like I follow people like now. I I'm subscribed. Well, I'll say subscribe to people on YouTube or follow, you know, subscribe to them on on the platforms, but I don't, and I know what you're saying, and I want to get that clear because we're kind of men that don't. I'm 45, man. I've never followed like like you get these groups of people on social media, and like you'll get them in these, and there's certain genres in you know, social media. You you'll get the car guys, the motorcycle guys, or the debater guys, or the commentary guy, and people are like, Oh, I follow that too. I love it, you know, and that's cool if you like that person, but I don't follow any man. You know what I mean? I don't follow people, I'm not based in any group. I don't like I'm not dedicated to anyone, I'm not a I'm not a um what do they call that over in that other group? They call them uh in so anyways, they they think that you know, like you have to stand 10 toes down completely for this guy, no matter if you believe he's right or wrong. If you don't, it's they're almost like and this is conservative people. And it's like if even if you don't agree, they're like the fucking Democrats, excuse my language, they're like the Democrats. They out you on social media. If you're not like completely agree, even though you know that person's wrong, like I'm not that kind of guy. I'm not gonna loyal, you know, blindly follow anybody. I'm a grown man, I got you know, three daughters. I I've raised uh my youngest is 17. I I don't no one's raised my kids, no one's paid my bills, you know. We do that, I've done that. I don't listen to like people trying to, you know, like in those groups, social media can be so funny with characters and people, and that's fine. If if if you don't like me being real and blunt and myself, I don't have time for people like that. You know what I mean? I'll bounce.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, the well, and and part of what you said right there is like it's the followers thing, like even in my heart, like I I have a hard time telling people like when they say how many followers do you have? And I I always say like none, like what are you talking about? Like, none. What do you mean? Well, on your social media, you have followers, like, oh yeah, and it feels fucked up. Like it does, there's something about that word. Like, I feel like shit when I call my fucking, you know, my fans and whatever, whatever, like this. I feel like shit when I call them followers. I don't mind calling them fans because I I'm a fan of things, yeah. And that's a different, that's a whole different proposition. You don't, but when you put when you call somebody a follower, I feel like you you're kind of calling them a bitch. Yeah, it is, and I and I can't I can't say like all these people follow me. Like, dude, no, I I I let's say I have I have a fair amount of fans. That's that's right.
SPEAKER_01I have networking people, you know what I mean? Like, I don't I don't like to call them followers either because I I I I think more of my people than that. I'm not gonna call I'm not gonna downgrade them by saying they follow me because they're not following me to nothing. You know what I mean? They're they watch, they're fans, you know. A lot of them I do network with a lot of people, so a lot of them is it's like a relationship. It's like a man and woman or a wife and husband. It's it's a networking, it's it's a you know, a trade system, a bargaining. It's like, okay, what can you do for me and what can I do for you? You know what I mean? It's it's seriously, it's like I'm not saying I use people or they use me. What I'm saying is, you know, I think you know what I'm saying. Like, yeah, I'm not gonna downgrade my my people when I because when I actually associate with these people, I've met, I've had many meetups, like motorcycle YouTuber meetups, we've done social media meetups, I've met hundreds of people that we, you know, that that's on my channels, you know, that we've done rode motorcycles with to rallies to chopper camp outs. I got some of the best fucking friends in those in those areas over there, you know, in those places. And I would never say they follow me. You know what I mean? To me, I'm like you. That's a downgrade in my book, you know. We're friends or we're we're associates, right? You know. So yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_03I was just gonna say maybe social media should uh really start to think about changing that followers thing to something that's a little bit different.
SPEAKER_01Well, like YouTube is subscribers, you know what I mean? So it's subscribers. You you got subscribers, they're not followers, they're not following you off a mountain or a cliff somewhere, you know what I mean? So because to me it does sound messed up, you know.
SPEAKER_03Well, and unfortunately, I think that just conditioning conditions people by saying followers on social media just conditions people to like you gotta follow people, you know what I'm saying? Like especially in the pop political spectrum, like I'm gonna follow this guy, I'm gonna go follow Trump. And people just take that absolutely literally, whether it's either side of the aisle.
SPEAKER_04Well, and I and I think a lot of it too. I mean, like I get okay, so like if we because we always devil's advocate, like I can see the the platform side of it, like, oh, they follow the page. Because it's weird to say, like, you you fanned the page, you know, like whatever that word is, adjective, noun, whatever, pro, I don't know what they I'm retarded, okay? So whatever, whatever that word is, I I can see like you, you it's gotta be an action too, you know, and it could be just the page, it could be the site, but um, with subscribers, it feels like you know, it's like we have subscription models, and then we have free pages, you know, like we gotta figure, we do gotta figure something out because you know, because it does have a negative connotation. And when you're when you're a stand-up person, um, and I've even had conversations, that's why I say person, is because I've had a conversations with women that feel the exact same way we do. They're like, you know, I I I had a conversation with a friend of mine, she's got like 2.6 million followers, and she's like, oh, please don't call them followers, you know.
SPEAKER_01You know, I totally agree. It's you know, it sounds degrading, you know. And and like I think it also depends on what you do on social media. If you like, I I consider myself a lot of people that's followed me for years, and I I just said that word again, I'm a streamer. I stream just about every day on YouTube, you know what I mean? And it's like, yes, I do drop videos and stuff. I don't stream as much on Instagram, uh, but I stream on on YouTube and Rumble. So it's like I have people that come in, they communicate with me live during while I'm live, you know what I mean? So I don't consider it like followers. They're they're watchers, they're they're associates, you know what I mean? So I do think that there is a there's a it's I think it's a double-edged sword, you know. It's like you, you know, is it downgrading really? I guess it is to people that take it as a downgrade when you say my followers, you know, if they take it that way, you know, I always try to just say my my my friends and my family, you know, my people here, my people, you know what I mean? My fucking people. Well, because get on like because I try to actually have relationships with these people, man. I communicate with everybody in my chat, I try to talk to everybody, answer every question. I don't just I'm not that asshole big time, you know, streamer where I'm only gonna answer your question if you super chat me and give me money, you know what I mean? I'm not that kind, man. I don't leave people behind. I've still got the same people I associate with six years ago when I first started streaming on YouTube. Just because I've got thousands of subscribers doesn't mean I take off and get into this other page and forget my people that started with me. You know what I mean? I'm there, I'm still there with those people, and I love those people.
SPEAKER_04That's you know that that's what's hard on the flip side for the associate term, you know. If we if we flip sided, because you know, if you just call everybody an associate, that may like that feels true, like you know, it kind of has that con connotation to it where it makes everything sound transactional, like every relationship I have is transactional. What can you do for me? Yeah, yeah. So what do you got over there, Dave? I see I see that lip twitching over there.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, I was just you know what you just said. I mean, it just that was kind of funny, actually. That's probably why I was twitching a little bit.
SPEAKER_04I have so, but tell us about this stream because you know what, like uh one of the biggest topics you know going around right now, amongst other things, is censorship. And as we've talked, uh, they've been they, the proverbial they, the air quotes they um, they've been on your ass for quite some time now. So let's let's let's talk about that because there's a lot of people out here that like to talk a lot about censorship, but don't know anybody that's been censored, they don't know anybody, they themselves have never been censored. And it's not like, oh, they took my page down or they gave me a 30-day you know restriction. No, like that your shit gets wiped out, years of work just gets wiped off the map. So tell tell us about your your your your well, let's start with Facebook.
SPEAKER_01I've been on Facebook for probably 15, 20 years, I guess. You know, uh I had a main page where I kept and then I started doing a political page. And like I said, I even posted on this page, let's see, 10 years ago. I've been doing this like on that page, 11 years. Political stuff, also motorcycle stuff. I bring in my whole life, and that's why I named my stuff Raise Motor Life because I wanted to bring in everything I do. Like I stream, show people stuff daily, what I do daily. I I video show people stuff what I do, my motorcycle trips or just my daily life, what my political beliefs are, my opinions, you know, commentary, stuff like that. And I was really active on I got up to like 25,000, 26,000 on Facebook on this other one, on this one they canceled, and and I had Messenger and all that. Well, here back in I think it was uh January, I think it was January, they sent me an email saying I need to verify my account. And I'm like, okay, sure. So I go into my email and and I put in my information, and then they send me an email saying this is not you. We cannot verify this is you. And I'm like, okay, why can't you do that? So I put in the code and the you know, the password, blah, blah, blah. Well, next thing I know, a buddy of mine's contacted me and saying, hey, dude, where's your messenger? Like, it's completely gone. I can't find you. It's wiped off, it's gone. Like, I don't even know if my Facebook page is still there. Somebody said it was still active. So they said basically I could not prove it was me. They they canceled that account. I am no longer even allowed. Even if I download Facebook app again, I had to delete it. Even if I download it again, as soon as I go to start a new account, it pops up the same shit and says, I am completely, I cannot get into Facebook whatsoever. So that's completely gone. So, yes, YouTube, I had three channels. I had one taken canceled, was completely done with. You know, boop, they sent me an email, didn't give me a chance to to file for an appeal or any of that stuff. So I I created these other channels. I had uh the golf and biker where I golf and and I was showing golfing content. Then I had my right uh my right lane, right lane talk media channel. I had an actual media channel I created. Um got active on it, started downloading things on it, and then my big channel that I had since 2021, I believe it was, was Raise Motor Life. I started out as motorcycle content, uh, all my rallies and my my you know meetings. I had companies. I I don't like to really work with a lot of companies, but I worked with like two or three uh like boot companies and different companies with you know, they people would send me companies, would send me aftermarket parts and stuff for my bike. I would do a review, you know, blah, blah, blah. You know, got heavy into that stuff and and really got sick of the play, like I really wanted to bring it all to one channel. So I did. And then once I started bringing the political talk and all that this past year, I think it was October, somewhere in there. I get an email saying, Well, your Gmail has been hacked, blah, blah, blah. They installed a Trojan horse in my laptop, completely wiped my laptop, messed it up completely. I fought with Google, finally got them on the phone. They said I got hacked from Bangladesh or some shit like that. But here's the funny thing. They kept saying, I couldn't prove it was my channel, I couldn't prove it was me, and I'm putting in my code, and and there's they're on the screen with me. The the dude from Google's controlling my screen now, reminds you. You know what I mean? Like I allowed him access. I'm talking to Google on the phone while he's controlling my screen, looking through my system to to verify it's me. I told him my channel. He looks, he's like, Well, I I I can't prove that's me. And I'm like, dude, I'm not in Bangladesh. Look at me, it's me. You know, you're sitting here looking through my freaking camera on my screen. Anyways, we go back and forth. They expired when they when they kill your Google account and your channels, they expire. It's called expired. They expire your account. That's what it is, it's gone. They completely took it, but they didn't delete it. What's what's messed up here is you can go look up Ray's Motor Life on YouTube, and it's there. You can join and be a member and pay monthly fees. You can do all this. Guess what? You're paying it to YouTube. So don't do that. I was on 50k subs and I've got some to my new backup or my backup channel here. And then this past Christmas, Christmas Day, shit, you not, I get an email from YouTube again. And then they're saying, Hey, you're demonetized. Didn't give me a chance to file for any said you get to refile in three months. So at the 25th of this month, I get to file to be monetized again. So they killed that, crashed that, said, I need to make a happier, friendlier channel. I'm like, damn, I'm not that bad, you know, or I didn't think I was.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_01I'm very blunt, I'm very outspoken, but I'm not like crazy stuff. You know what I mean? Like off over the top kind of shit. And it's like, why did I just get this again? So a week after I got demonetized, they shadow banned me on YouTube. And what that means is they completely take you out of the algorithm. I went from a thousand to fifteen hundred in my everyday live stream chat inside the chat. Talk people watching, communicating with me. And you can go look at some of my live streams. I got 27,000 that was in there. You know, I got thousands of people that was in there. I can't hardly get 10 right now in there because I'm completely shadow banned, but I'm not stopping. I keep going. You know what I mean? I I'm just gonna keep going because like I said, I'm not doing it for money. If I did, I'd have I'd have toted the line, I'd have shut my mouth or whatever, and I'd have posted happy content and never opened my mouth about politics or none of that. So, but yeah, people don't understand what cancel means until you actually get canceled and when you your voice gets taken. Even if they leaving you there on the on the channel, like I am here, like my channel is active on YouTube, but I can't get it. They're not I can't get anyone to see it. You know what I mean? They dropped me out of the algorithms, they they took my advanced features away, then I filed to get those back. They said they gave them back to me, but they're not putting me back in the algorithms. So yeah, when you're canceled, you're completely, you know, and I started to TikTok within 10 videos within the first week. Two of them, they done gave me two strikes. Uh, because I said Trump, I got on there and it was actual video of me. And I was saying, you liberals and democrats cannot complain. Trump freed, you know, uh the Palestine people, you know what I mean, by taking out Hamas and all that shit, blah, blah, blah. And they they struck me for that stuff, just saying that, you know what I mean? So I deleted TikTok. I was like, the hell that I'm not going through this issue with these people. So I deleted the TikTok. Uh, yeah, PayPal, I'm not allowed on. I think it's PayPal or one of them. They canceled me off of that. So I'm not allowed on one of those uh those pay apps, uh, because I was connected through my channel with YouTube, my first channel, and then you know how I got paid. Well, this new channel, I was up to about$1,400 the week I got demonetized on this new channel. And I've got I take snapshots, I got it all all receipts. So when they demonetize me, I I email them like, hey, where's my payment? It's the end of the month because you get paid at the end of the month, every you know, end of the month rolls over. I still haven't seen a cent from them or anything, so they still ain't paid me my money or nothing. So I'm telling you, when you get canceled, this is how you get canceled, unless they just wipe your stuff completely off. And they told me if I create a new channel on YouTube right now while I'm going through this battle with them, then they're gonna just wipe out everything and I'll never be allowed back on YouTube again. So that is wild.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that is completely wild, especially I just watched some of your stuff and like the stuff that you put out.
SPEAKER_01I'm not bad.
SPEAKER_03Right. It that just blows my mind that they have gone that far just to silence you for like nothing.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_01That's what I don't get. Like, I'm not as bad as Benny Johnson or some of these other commentators, you know what I mean? And I'm like, what am I doing wrong? You know what I mean? Like, what have I said? I don't talk about the little hat people, I don't talk about that country, I don't, you know what I mean? I don't do that stuff, I don't really, you know what I mean? And it's like, how come they're they're targeting somebody like me? I don't know if it's because I they know I can grow fast, I but you would think they'd want to make money, you know, because I can grow. I I get the people in, I'm entertaining, like especially if you watch my other channel. I mean, like it took me like four years to get up to almost 50k subs, but still, you know, I worked at it, blah, blah, blah. You know, a lot of people there. And it's like when when people started listening in, I started getting millions. Oh, I had to delete, I had to go through this new account right here. They said I was copying my my uh my another reason they demonetized me because I was reusing is what they said, reusing my shorts from Instagram that I was making myself. I've got I've got shorts that had two million. Every short just about that I was dropping had two to three hundred thousand, or every one of them was getting, you know, 100k or more, 500k views, all this. I mean, if you go look at my channel right now and just go to the description, you'll see I've got, I think, well over 10 million views already on this channel, but my other one had over 30 something million views altogether on that one. Even on my other my right uh my right lane talk media channel. I walked in Walmart and filmed in 2024 how expensive cheese was, and it right now is still active, they still got those channels active. Right now, it's still got over 2 million views. Like, I know how to do this. I've been doing this for so long. I know how to get people to my channel. I know how to, I don't buy my shit. You can tell by the real interactions, you know, the comments, the views, everybody, you know, interacts with me. Um, but here's the thing: I know how to get people to to my channel. I've got on people's channel and like this and and critiqued and said, This is what you need to do, dude. Don't do this, and they'll grow within a month. They'll have you know a thousand more followers or five thousand, you know. And I I can do that for some reason. I'm not trying to brag, but I'm saying I've done it so long, I know what to attack and what not, like with the with the channels. I know where to go in the spaces, I know which way, you know, what to hashtags, how to do certain things in your stream yard to make it to do the tags to where they do push it. Uh but for some reason it's like we don't like this motherfucker. We're gonna kill him, you know. We're taking him out, we're we're taking his channels, we don't want him talking. And I'm like, what am I saying? Maybe I do political review commentary.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, maybe it's just because you're so gentle and effective, you know. They like they like the shocking things, like you know, like I've talked to a lot of people, and this isn't say that I'm never gonna get got, but I've talked to a lot of people that have that uh that do far less, far less edgy shit than I do, far you know, far more toned down than I do it. Yeah, and they go through all sorts of hell, and I haven't been through that yet. I get shadow, I'm I'm always I live shadow banned now, but uh you know, but I I still get the fucking views, I still get the thing, and you know, but every but then they come in and they make all these changes like oh, you know, now now we're gonna judge your monetization on this metric and that metric that we have never fucking we've never used before because it won't make you any money. We're gonna use those now, so we have to pay you less and this and that and the other thing. So it it like it's an always changing, forever, forever evolving infrastructure of hoops, you gotta jump through all the terms of service.
SPEAKER_01Everybody calls it TOS on on YouTube. The TOS on all these platforms, the terms of service, when you sign it, they changed it this year on 2026 on YouTube. And I've actually, you know, I've watched, I've commented on a lot of your your shows you've done with other people, and I've actually even tried and said, hey, you know, and I'm telling you right now, and I'm trying, and I've and I think I've told you this once before, if or when you get to this channel monetized and you start monetizing these videos or these streams, you you're liable to get hit because there's certain topics that's there that you've done that's edgy, you know what I mean? And like when you do the monetization, if you do that on YouTube, when you get to that point, start out by just monetizing your live streams and like memberships. Don't monetize your whole channel yet because you need to go through your videos and anything you talk about, the tiny hat people and all that they will hit you harder than anything. Now you can go and put those on private or members only and then monetize your videos or go through and click which videos you want monetized and you the ones you think that will get through. You know what I mean? So it's real tricky. They're making so much, they're making it so hard, is what they're doing. They're making it tough to do anything.
SPEAKER_04So well, in in you know, in a sense, though, I'll be honest with you, in a sense, I like it. In a sense, I I want it to be harder. But that's me. This place is so fucking saturated with douchebags and retards that all have a big mouth, a lot of opinions, and zero information that it's actually kind of nice to watch these motherfuckers fall off, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I was watching another guy's video when they came out and they said 2026 that they they just they crushed so many channels. They they uh demonetized, they banned, and like a lot of Christian channels, like they say they're they're repeats, they're they're reusing the the titles or the you know the theme, the AI videos, a ton of AI channels got demonetized and pushed down, uh, like over a hundred thousand of them on YouTube, you know, because I've done the studies. There's eighty million videos get downloaded a day on YouTube, including shorts. There's and why there's eighty million, and there's over a hundred million people that's on YouTube. So you can find anything on, but you know, if you like Chinese or Filipino people digging huts and houses out of the mud, and the I love that shit. I get addicted to watching that stuff, you know what I mean? Yeah, here's some bamboo, and they cut it and they build these little. I I mean, you can find you if you want to find a woman eating her dinner with her feet, you can do it. I mean, there's so much stuff, and and that's what's crazy. It's like I think they want you to tow this line to where there's no pushback, there's no political talk, there's no, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04Like, there's no I think the politics, I think the politics is a big player in it because I'll tell you this. So I was blowing the fuck up at a fucking, I was getting followers, yeah. There that word again, but I was getting followers at our rate that I mean, people with fucking five, six, seven hundred thousand, a million, two million followers were messaging me, like, how the fuck are you doing this? You're buying your shit. I got that accusation a lot. Oh yeah. And then I did, I and I'll tell you the exact video I did. I did the the very first video I did where I introduced my logo for the far middle, which is, you know, it's just where I stand. It's not actually a movement of any sort, it's just where I stand, and people fucking people ate it up. So I put the fucking picture up on the video. I overlaid it on the video, and that day I was getting, you know, between you typically between 13 and 30,000 views per video. That day I got 2,230 video uh views on that video. It never fucking moved, and then every video after that was fucking shit. And I'm just now starting to come back. But here's the weird thing is if you look at my Instagram page or my Facebook page, my views are there. The the views are the videos they're allowing to be viewed are the videos where I talk about the black community, I talk about the Muslim community, I talk about shitty white people. Uh, as soon as like if you just mention, you know, like Trump not being awesome, you're done. Like it's we're we're literally right, we're literally there now. If you mention Trump not being awesome, they're gonna shut you down. If you mention the fact that you might not subscribe to the left or the right and fuck them both, you're done. Like this that that's where we're at now. They're forcing people onto sides.
SPEAKER_01Well, here's the thing the family, the right wing aligned Ellison family bought these platforms right now, and this is this is true facts right here because Netflix didn't want to keep bidding on you know on these platforms, and this came out like a couple weeks ago. So the the Ellison family will be controlling TikTok, CBS, CNN, HBO, Disney Channel, BET, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, DC Studios, Comics, you know, uh Fango, uh, Miramax, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, yeah, Pluto TV, Showtime, TBS, the CW, TNT, Warner Brothers, and more. These are the platforms the Ellison family paid and they bought. So things will be changing a lot towards more. I you know what? I tell you what, I don't even want them to favor me because I'm a conservative. Just give us a level playing field.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Stop taking my shit down and allowing leftists to sit and say they're gonna unalive people and do this and that, and everybody should be unalive. You know what I mean? And I don't even say that kind of stuff, and I get taken down and canceled. Stop, just make it even. You know what I mean? Even out the playing field, allow us conservatives to grow more, like you do. I mean, there's leftists that's got millions of followers, and and I'm like, really? I can't I say one thing, and it's like strike here, strike there, strike, you know. It's like so. I'm hoping that it when they take over these platforms as family, at least maybe get some level common sense people to even these things out so it's not so hard on a lot of creators, you know.
SPEAKER_04I don't think you're getting level playing fields out of Larry Ellison. Like, I don't think so. No, fuck no, dude. Dude, okay, so to when TikTok was owned by China, that shit was bad enough.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And then, dude, when when Larry bought it, when Ellison bought it, he hasn't took it over yet. He hasn't he's got all of them. They're not running the other in the butt his commands are already input, and that's why they're banning motherfuckers left and right. I've never seen like I got banned on TikTok when it was China talk, and I'm never going back. Like I got banned, that's when I quit, that's when I deleted my account. I got banned for dumb shit that I I had put way worse up there, and they banned me for that shit. I'm like, fuck you guys. But now people that were that I all knew that I knew, they were all making it through, making it through, making it through. As soon as they announced the buyout, it wasn't but a couple of weeks, and uh and uh charter of some sort got through put through the company, and next thing you know, boop motherfuckers just creators just dropping like flies. Just every day I knew five, at least five a day that would get dropped from from TikTok bands.
SPEAKER_01Now, was those conservative channels?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, or yeah, well, it's it's conservative or anybody, it's anybody but the purple-haired leftist with too many opinions, or the people that fucking that yeah.
SPEAKER_01What I heard a lot of people are that speak about that that little country over there is the ones being kicked out, you know what I mean? The ones that are booting the system now, and that's the thing. When I'm doing my lives, like I don't care to call Trump out. You know what I mean? I'll call him out on his mistakes, I call him out on their shit. He's not the greatest, you know what I mean? He's the greatest president of my lifetime, but he doesn't do everything right. He messes up, he does a lot of shit. He's got a lot of employees like Pam Bonnie. I do not agree with. They she needs to be gone, just like Christy Noam, gone by, see ya, get somebody in there that knows how to run this shit. You know what I mean? But here's the thing I will call them out. Maybe that's why they don't like because I'm not kissing their ass, you know. I don't know. But I'm not afraid to call them out. And I feel like a lot of people that has been channels have been deleted and stuff is the is the creators, the content creators that are saying, wait a minute, we don't agree with this, we don't agree with Iran, we don't agree with what he's doing over here, you know what I mean? And I feel like that's a lot to do with it because he is connected with the Ellison family, you know.
SPEAKER_04And maybe, you know, maybe it comes down to like we said earlier, you they they force you into sides. So maybe there's th there's three sides in order to make it. You either have to be you have to be left and have everybody on the right hate you, or you have to be right and have everybody on the left hate you, or there's this very special little demographic that I fit into and a couple of my friends fit into where you don't fit anywhere and everybody fucking hates you. So we'll let you be up here as you know that may it just another level of opposition for people to disagree with and drive them harder into the left and then drive them harder into the right.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, it's the same with like Megan Kelly, took they all went to this place where no one can stand them, you know what I mean? And it's like, why are they speaking truth? Why are you saying you know what I mean? Like, why do you you people worship these people for years on TV and all this shit and loved them? And and as soon as they have a problem with what reality is, because I'm a realist too, you know what I mean? I see what's right, what's wrong, I know it, you know what I mean? I can see with my eyes, and I don't believe everything I hear, and I believe only half of the shit I see. So, you know, I mean it's but they put these people in a group, and there's like they completely disavow them, disown them, and it's like, why? Because they have the the courage to stand up and say, I don't agree with you.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and you know, for to an extent, like, but when you get into like Candace, that bitch is nuts, like oh yeah, not only is she fucking like she's working with Erica Kirk to make millions of dollars on this whole fucking thing.
SPEAKER_01I don't even get on those topics on my channel because on her and that topic, because I I just think the cheese fell off that cracker a long time ago, you know. Like it's it's not she's not there for me. And and and and that's what I was talking about, like followers. I'm not a I don't follow anybody like her followers. Her followers are so dedicated, they are like they cry if you disagree with what she's saying, you know what I mean? No, no, no, she's right, she you know, all this shit, you know. So it's like that's what I was talking about when it comes when I was saying followers. I I'm not I don't follow anybody like that, you know. It's it's it's funny because there's a lot of people that just they die hard for her, you know what I mean? And these people, and it's like, dude, can you not see what we see? She is cuckoo, man. I believe I mean a lot of conspiracy stuff has come true, but the things that she has said is really like that's not even conspiracy, it's cuckoo. It's wack-a-doodle stuff, man. It's it's unrealistic. Like he was a trap, a time traveler and all this shit, and blah blah, and you know, coming to me in my dream. I just think she's a woman. Not to get on this subject, I'll get off of it real quick. I'll land my plane right here. She's jealous because he didn't marry her and bring her in into that fortune and create it with her, like they started out. I believe she's like a scorned woman, and it's all about revenge. That's I don't think any of that.
SPEAKER_04I think this is a fucking well-placed grift. We know it's a game. We we know Erica Kirk is a CIA plant from when she was a fucking child. We don't know much about Candace Owens other than her fucking her dad or some shit's in the FBI. She's got all these massive connections to all these fucking giant money bags and the and the Jews and all this other shit. I did I just I see it as a show. It's just a show. Do you want to watch the Candace and Erica show? Do you want to watch fucking Dharma and Greg?
SPEAKER_01Yep. Social media has been given to all of us, and it's a they play it, it's a game, really. And they're playing it right because they're making millions of dollars. They have these people, they're playing the the it's like it's like Monopoly or something, you know, like you get to Pasco or you get to you get to this house and you get to, you know, get this and you get to discuss this, or or game of life, you know, it's like a board game. Social media, I look at it sometimes when I see certain people, they're playing the game right. Why? Because they're not, they don't care who really believes them or not. They're they're on top up here, they're making their money, they're they're building their their legacy or whatever they want to build, if that's how they want to build it to be remembered, fine. But yeah, but they're they're playing a game. We've all been given it, and you got to know how to play it, and you got to know how to get in and out of it if you want to succeed on social media. Now, some people look at it like that. I don't. I look at it like I'm on here, I'm I'd like to, I love doing this. I love doing live streams, I love giving my message out, I love for people to hear it. You know what I mean? Like I love doing this. I'm not trying to make 20 million, which would be nice, yes, but I'm not gonna go to that extent of of like I said, degrading myself or I'm gonna be myself. I'm gonna stand on my principles and my values and stuff. Uh, you know, but I will play to a little bit, but not to people's emotions and feelings and and and over, you know what I mean? I'm not gonna to you know, I'm not gonna bend down to rise up is what I'm saying. I'm not gonna lower myself to to rise up. I'm not gonna lower my myself, you know.
SPEAKER_03What you got over there, Dave? Well, I was gonna say the you know, the weird thing like with the whole Candace Owen and Megan Kelly and Telica Carlson with all that drama that goes on, it's almost like you know, it's drawing attention not only to the people that are doing because I see a lot of conservative uh you know podcasters and stuff like that going after Candace Owens. But it's like not only are you going after Candace Owens, but now people are gonna start thinking your your followers are there. We go with the followers again, your listeners are gonna be like, Well, what did Candace Owen really say? Now that that's gonna draw them to those other platforms to see what exactly is going on. It it almost seems like it's it's this whole cycle that just keeps going, you know. Hey, we're gonna give you more followers by doing this, we're gonna give you more by doing this, and it's but you know what the crazy thing is, Dave?
SPEAKER_01It's like wrestling. They go out there, they perform, they come back in behind the curtain, they all talk to each other. Like, what the hell? Exactly.
SPEAKER_04Like well, it's like it's lawyers, like my friends, my friends that are lawyers tell you open, they'll tell you openly the very first thing we do when you call a lawyer is we found out who the other guy called, and then we go have lunch or we go golfing and we figure out how we're gonna draw this trial out so we can make a bunch of fucking money.
SPEAKER_01Same as the buddies, yep. They sit up there and they they only say shit in front of a camera, they only love America in front of camera. But I've had I've heard them say, Yeah, we go eat, we have we're friends with these and them, and we'll go eat lunch together and blah blah blah. And I'm like, but you're out here pushing each other against each other, you know, the two sides against each other. You got us fighting in the streets, you got people. Burning cities down. Why don't you come in here and say, hey, we're actually friends. We go eat dinner together. We try to discuss these politics. You know what I mean? Why not tell all of the people out here? I know, but I'm saying, why not tell the people out here, hey, sit down and have a discussion? That's what Charlie Kirk was trying to do. Yeah, but you know, he was trying to get people to have a discussion and they didn't. No, they don't. No, they want people at each other's post. They want the cities to burn. They want, they want them to stay in power. It's it's money and power, influence, you know.
SPEAKER_03I think I think the main thing is is chaos sells. I mean, let's just be honest. Drama, chaos is good.
SPEAKER_04And chaos sells and division locks in power. You know, like that's really what it is. If they keep us divided, you know, then it's a whole lot easier to fight a bunch of fucking pissed off idiots in a bunch of different groups than there is to be to fight a bunch of pissed off idiots in one group, you know, like it's it is, and that's why you see a lot on social media.
SPEAKER_03A lot of the people that have like a lot of a lot of followers, a lot of engagement and stuff like that, are a lot of the stuff that is uh let's just be honest, like mind like mind-dulling. Just you know, you just sit there and scroll.
SPEAKER_04It's stupid.
SPEAKER_03But the moment you start to speak about something that's actual facts and stuff like that, well, they're echo chambers, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01They're echo chambers for the GLP or the Democrats or the Fox News, you know. And the thing is, I don't like those echo chambers. Be yourself, quit quit feeling like you have to be an echo chamber just to fit in or get along with these people or have connections. And just like the new guy that's taking uh Christy Nome's place, he got up there and said the other day when he was answering questions and saying something, I've you know, being in Congress, you know, uh it's allowed me to buy three more companies for my wife and my, you know, for me and my wife's companies to buy other. I'm like, really, you're making that much money up there, and you're shitting and we're we're fucking struggling to to pay gas, or people are people can't afford food, and you're buying companies and businesses off your salary, you know?
SPEAKER_04Well, the problem is that people get addicted to these to these teams because here's the secret for everybody that's listening that's addicted to these teams, this is gonna piss you off, but it's a fact. And if you just embrace the reality behind it, you're gonna go a lot further and you're gonna live a life that you really don't fucking want to run away from. But the truth is, if you're addicted to being one of one of these teams, some giant shit is missing in your life, and you understand that you're not really all that interesting on your own. You have to be part of a group or you won't get fucking noticed.
SPEAKER_01You have to be a follower or a channel.
SPEAKER_04Do cooler shit and you'll get noticed. Do cooler shit and you won't have to be part of a team. Fuck, do cooler shit and you'll find yourself being like us. We don't want to be on a fucking team. We do way cooler shit than your team does.
SPEAKER_01Your people will find you. You don't have to find nobody.
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SPEAKER_01Your people will find you. That's the way I've always done social media and life. I be myself, I love, I do what I love, and people will find my people will find me. I never set out to go find anyone. I'm not trying to, you know what I mean, fit in in this group, in this group. And it's true. And I've always and I've said this many times in my past, my life has been like the interstate, like a highway. People come into my life. Guess what? Not everybody's meant to go the distance with me. Some people will get off certain exits, some some people will go further with me and get off, doesn't mean I dislike them or I hate them or none of that, or anything bad. There's just there's people in your life that's not meant to go the road with you, and they'll get off of those exits. And for me to go my life, my distance, there is people. If you're yourself and you be true to yourself, will stick with you, they find you, and they will ride with you. You know what I mean? And they will stay with you for your journey, and that's your lifelong friendships and partners and people, you know. And I I truly believe that with politics. Be yourself. If you know, wherever you stand on politics, your people will find you. Don't go looking for a party, you know. Stop be yourself, stand on your principles and your values, and your people will come to you. You will find they will find you.
SPEAKER_04There's basically it all goes back to you find what you're looking for as soon as you stop looking for it. Exactly. It it always finds you because then you became you become see what the what the problem is, is for anybody that doesn't quite understand, let me elaborate on this. The problem is is that when you're looking for a group, you're emitting desperation. Nobody's attracted to desperation. What you have to be emitting is confidence, and you can only emit confidence if you're actually doing some shit that is putting you in a better direction, putting you on a better path, moving you in a better direction. Once you start moving yourself in a better direction, you start emitting attraction waves and you start intriguing people. And they, you know, like, and especially for me, and I've been told this, you know, they they say, you know, I wasn't a fan right away, but I was definitely intrigued. That's all you got to do. If you could just be you, get on your mission, and then focus on that mission without focusing, you know. The pro the people is the problem is people all want to believe they're on this mission. They want to tell you they're on a mission, they want to show you that they're kind of on a mission with some with a couple social media reels here and there, and then they don't live the mission because they're so fucking busy, not focused on the mission, but rather focused on who's focused on them conducting the mission. Dude, put the fucking blinders on, and all the people that you're worried about seeing you will come to you. Yep.
SPEAKER_01Yep, they're more worried about views and likes and followers, and there goes that word again, but subscribers, whatever you want to say it. Yes, they focus more on the analytics and and who's seeing them. It's just like a YouTuber going and giving a bum money and filming it. Like, why are you filming it? Are you true to yourself? Are you trying to there's a devil's advocate in that situation? Because there's some people that really do good, and then there's some people that just want the clout.
SPEAKER_04I do, and and and I, and I, you're not at all wrong, but I always have to push back on that when it that whole idea that if you do good on camera, you're not actually doing good. I ran a charity organization for three years, and the only way we could get people to be a part of it to come take part, to come donate, is to put good deeds on camera. Yeah, and the other thing is that if you you know, with this whole world that we live in, with everything's being so fucking negative. You if you put if you turn on Instagram, if you're not a 13-year-old girl, you're probably gonna see a bunch of negative shit right out of the gate. You're gonna see a bunch of bitching, a bunch of pissing, a bunch of moaning, a bunch of whining, a bunch of crying, you're gonna see a bunch of negative shit. So it's also good that you put good good deeds on camera to prove to people that they actually exist. Because if you know people believe that people only believe what exists is what they can see. If they never see any good, then they never believe it exists anymore. So, although I do 100% agree with you, because there is a horde of motherfuckers out here, and I would and I would venture to say, I would venture to lean on your side of saying there is more people that do good deeds on camera because they can get some social media fucking monetization out of it than there is people doing it genuinely.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, oh no, I agree, and that's why I said I don't think it should be completely out of the round, but yeah, the people that are doing it, they're they're advertising, you know what I mean? Like you said, you had to advertise to, and I think it's a lot goes back to the younger generation. Like I'm 45, so I'm not I'm a G I'm at the end of the Gen Z or Gen X or whatever it's called, you know. Gen X. Uh yeah, yeah. I mean, I grew up, I was born in 80, grew up, you know, teenager in the 90s, loved it. Uh these younger generations, they're everything has to even my kids. I got a 23-year-old, she's married with a with a kid. I got a 20-year-old, she's in medical school, she's got a boyfriend, but and my youngest is fixing to graduate high school. So she's and she's like, you know, wanting hands-on stuff, but everything, even that gen, even that younger generation is it's it's everything is is camera recorded or social media. And now I wasn't even talking about my kids' generation. I'm talking about the 35 to 25 to 35 year olds. It's it's like, where did like now, and I look at my kids, and I I just know how I raise my kids, you know, very good. And I think so, because they're not on all I don't post my kids on social media, blah, blah, blah. They're not, you know, they have maybe one or two uh accounts here and there, but and they're girls and they know I've taught them uh what not to do and all this. And and like I said, one's married with a kid, they she don't even worry about that stuff. The other one's got a boyfriend, she don't worry about that stuff. And my high schooler, she's uh she's in high school focusing on that, but I think she's on uh Instagram, I think, maybe Facebook. Uh but the thing is they're gonna say, Oh, you you don't know what your kids yeah, I do, because I do monitor my kids' stuff, I do pay attention to my children, you know what I mean? I know what they do, they live here at home, except for the oldest one. She don't, you know. But yeah, my my 20-year-old, she's in college right now. Like I said, med school, so she lives at home to make it easier on her while she's going to school. But the thing is the the 30, the 25 to 35 year old, they they've completely, in my opinion, it's like that clout stuff. They want to chase the clout and this and that, but now my kids' age, it's like uh we have to like not my kids, but other the their age group, it's like people my age is their parents, and I'm like, how the hell did you raise these dummy ass kids? You know what I mean? Like how my kids are good, you know, they don't do this kind of craziness. How where if you're my generation and you're 45 to 50 or 40, how is your 20-year-olds so messed up? You know what I mean? Like, how are they so woke and crazy or this and that, you know, or whatever? And it's like, what the hell? Where did these people come from? You know, yeah. I'm just rambling, but I'm saying it's crazy because I see these kids, I'm like, thank god my daughter doesn't act like that. You know, it's because they're not half naked on social media, they're not doing this only OF, and they're not doing you know what I mean? Like they haven't values and right, you know.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's I'm 43, and I'll tell you, it's because people our age, um, they all fucking which I will interject. I used to be Gen X, I'm not happy about being an elder lam elder millennial now. This is bullshit. Um, what the fuck is that? Uh okay, but you know, I guess it could be worse. But the problem is is that people in our fucking in our generation, our age group, we we were the beginning of the spoiled, right? So, you know, it's like we were spoiled enough, you know, on a general basis. I wasn't spoiled, I got my hands too, but um, we were spoiled enough to where both where we believed we were entitled to better, and because we weren't getting better, you know, whether it's a car for the birthday or a bigger party or you know, whatever it is, because we weren't getting better, we were being oppressed. So we were gonna then we then moved on to give our kids everything we air quotes never had, you know. Oh, we, you know, my my my kid, you know, I wanted this as a kid, so I got it for them. And I I wanted this and I didn't have it, so I got it for them. And now we've got all these fucking kids running around in their 20s and 30s that are that are just that, they're children still and they're in their 20s and their 30s because they believe that everything needs to be handed to them and it needs to be handed to them right now. You know, but it when we separate the the the generations, it is kind of funny because if you go pre-us, right, to our grandparents or even our parents, they believed that hard work was the way, which uh which is a fact, okay? The hard work is the way. The problem is that they never learned that at a certain point, if you transition that hard work into smart work, you can work a little bit lighter, yeah, and then you could live a little bit more life. Well, what they did is they just said hard work's the only fucking way, and you work yourself into the fucking early grave. That's the way it goes. Dude, when I was a kid, 40-year-olds were like 80-year-olds to me, you know, and then now our generation, our age group here, you know, 40 to 50, 43 to 50. You know, we got uh we've got the the we still have the hard work, we just haven't quite figured out how to do the smart work. Yeah, and then we've got the fucking generation after us that they ain't figured out shit, but you give it to me because I owe it, because you owe it to me.
SPEAKER_01You know, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I remember growing up watching my parents just work, you know, and it was uh oh dude. They they instilled it as in a in a young age, like hard work is what you need to do to be able to succeed. I I saw my dad, he was my dad was a printer by trade. I saw my dad, he was changing some rollers on the printer, and he literally got his thumb stuck, and half of it like the side of the skin ripped up, and he just took duct tape, wrapped it around, went right back to work. And that's that's my mentality when I go to work. It's like if I'm hurting a lot of people, I'll be honest.
SPEAKER_01I'll be honest, we were raised by a single mother. My dad was an old school hippie pothead, never would worked. So she divorced him when I was two, and she and I'm the youngest boy of five boys, and my mother raised all five of us and worked hard. We all knew how to do children washes, we knew how to wash dishes, laundry, everything by the time we were seven years old. She instilled hard work, but she moved us from the uh we were born in the country in the mountains in East Tennessee. But when I was two, when she divorced my father, she moved us to Nashville. We grew up in the 80s in the East Nashville Housing Projects, South 606 housing projects off Dickerson Road. If you know anything about those in the 80s, you could come, you had to live on concrete floors, you had to sleep on floors, bullets flying through, and the you know, crack was coming in. We were the only five white kids in the neighborhood. It was tough. And the five white kids at school, you know what I mean, in the 80s. It was a rough life, but we managed, we fought every day, going to school and back home, whatever. But that's not what I'm saying. This what I'm saying is she worked hard to get her degrees, got us out of those situations. So I get what you're saying about like giving the kids stuff because my daughters, man, you know, I just gave my daughter a Harley Davidson dude, my 17-year-old. She takes her class Saturday, you know, her motorcycle course class. I get what you're saying. I have support my kids, but they my daughters work. They're putting their self through school, you know what I mean? Right. They they work every day. She goes to school, she goes to work. You know, I have taught them how to work and do things. Uh, it's just not giving, you know what I mean? But I get what you're saying about that. But no, I had a rough, you know, we had it rough growing up. We didn't get, like you said, the birthday cars and stuff. My mom was like, There's five of you. I can't afford five cars. You know what I mean? I can't let's let's get it.
SPEAKER_04Speaking of your mom, let's back up for a second. Because I I think I heard you say that she raised five boys, yeah, and got degrees. Did I hear that right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. She went back to college in Nashville, got her degrees while we lived. Poor as fuck, dude.
SPEAKER_04You got a mom that raised five kids by herself and then went and got fucking degrees. Okay, what the fuck is everybody's excuse now?
SPEAKER_01Retired from the retired from the state of Tennessee and then went into the medical field and then retired from the medical field.
SPEAKER_04That's that's dude. That's a testament to fucking to to true human strength.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Uh, we're we're approaching the hour, so let's I you know what I think we should, I think we should wrap it up on your mom. Give your mom a little honor. Yeah, um that's that's an absolute absolutely fucking monstrous feat to raise, not only raise five kids by yourself. I don't give a fuck what gender you are, but it's definitely harder as a woman. I can understand. And then to go to to to do the mission, conduct the mission, you know, execute if fucking retire and then go into another line of work, get degrees, get fucking go, mom. Go, mom. That's what we're saying.
SPEAKER_01Oh, she's uh I respect that woman more than anything in this world.
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SPEAKER_04Alrighty, Brandon Ray, why don't you let everybody know where they can find you with your possible white hat?
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SPEAKER_04We're definitely gonna have you back. Um, but you guys know what time it is. We've been down in the sticky wickets. We got all the way down in the weeds in the dirt today about censorship and social media bullshit. So let's just do ourselves a little favor and not walk away from the episode all amped up and ramped up with a little segment I like to call hopelessly human.
SPEAKER_00And it starts a little bit like people can be rough, they can be quite tough, they can get in the way, but at the end of the day, some are only stupid, some are hopelessly human.
SPEAKER_04Yes, some are hopelessly human, and this one's no different. This one comes to you from realitypathing.com, labeled the Grocery Store Good Samaritan. One evening at a local grocery store, an elderly woman named Mrs. Jenkins struggled to unload her groceries from her cart. As she fumbled with her bags, a young man named Jake noticed her predicament. Without hesitation, he rushed over to her assist to offer assistance. Jake not only helped Mrs. Jenk carry Mrs. Jenkins' bags, but also took the time to chat with her while walking back home, walking her back home. They talked about life's ups and downs, their favorite recipes, and how often people overlook simple gestures like helping one another. Moved by their interaction, Jake made it a weekly commitment to check on Mrs. Jenkins after his grocery runs. His act of kindness blossomed into a beautiful relationship that enriched both of their lives. It served as a reminder that even in the sm even the smallest acts, like lending someone a hand, can have lasting impacts. That's hopelessly human? That's a show. Later, guys.